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My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.
They thought it was an enemy but it was only their own reflection.
